Rough Meerschaums

[buffalo96]

My Dad served with the US Army in Sinop, Turkey during the early 60's. While there he aquired a few meerschaums and after smoking them a while they got shelved where my brother and I abused them mercilessly. My Dad gave me a couple of the rough ones to get fixed and keep them in the family. They mostly have tenon problems and I don't care for the stems. I think they are Bakerlite?

The grapevine has a loose tenon and the Turk has a snapped tenon that was epoxied in the mortise. :/
Cant wait to get them fixed, re-stemmed, and smoked.

 

[pstlpkr]

Those are quite unique. Definitely worth having repaired.

It is always nice to keep a pipe smoking connection with our progenitors.

Make sure you post up photos when you have them repaired.
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[nsfisher]

Ya, I have one with a screw in Bakelite stem and I don't like the stem either. Trying to figure some way of changing it

 

[topd]

Good looking 50's or 60's era pipes. Get 'em fixed....

 

[captainprophesy]

I agree... definitely get them fixed. If nothing more than the sentimental value of them.

and of course... post pics after they get repaired. ::

 

[foggymountain]

Are those bakelite or amber stems? Amber was in wide use in the 1960s. It is hard on the teeth and makes a poor pipestem.

 

[baronsamedi]

+1 for Walker Briar Works.